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Graduate Courses

The following graduate seminars are regularly taught in the Department. All seminars are 3 semester hours unless otherwise noted.

• American Politics
  POL 600 - Seminar in American Politics
  POL 601 - Judicial Behavior
  POL 602 - Judicial Politics
  POL 603 - Legislative Politics
  POL 604 - Executive Politics
  POL 606 - Media Politics
  POL 609 - Southern Politics
  POL 612 - American Political Parties
  POL 613 - State Politics and Policy
  POL 614 - Political Participation and Voting
  POL 615 - Public Opinion and Political Psychology
• Comparative Politics
  POL 620 - Seminar in Advanced Industrial Democracies
  POL 621 - Seminar in Comparative European Government
  POL 622 - Political Development and Change
  POL 623 - Concepts and Theories of Comparative Political Analysis
  POL 624 - Asian Government
  POL 625 - Reform and Change in Post-Communist Political Systems
  POL 626 - Comparative Bureaucracies
  POL 627 - Comparative Legislatures
  POL 628 - Comparative Parties and Elections
  POL 641 - Latin American Government
  POL 642 - Quantitative Approaches to Comparative Politics
• International Relations
  POL 631 - Seminar in International Relations
  POL 632 - Quantitative Approaches to International Relations
  POL 633 - Global Strategies and Alliances
  POL 634 - Formulation of American Foreign Policy
  POL 635 - International Conflict in the Nuclear Age
  POL 636 - International Security Law and Policy
  POL 637 - International Political Economy
• Political Methodology
  POL 650 - Research in Politics
  POL 651 - Empirical Political Analysis
  POL 652 - Applied Political Research
  POL 653 - Advanced Topics in Political Methodology
  POL 654 - Formal Models of Politics
• Other
  POL 598 - Special Topics in Political Science
  POL 691 - Seminar in Teaching (1 hour, pass/fail)
  POL 696 - Advanced Readings
  POL 698 - Special Topics in Political Science (recent offerings have included International Organizations and Comparative Federalism)
  POL 699 - Readings and Research in Political Science (Independent Study Projects)
• Thesis and Dissertation
  POL 697 - Thesis (M.A. students only)
  POL 797 - Dissertation (Ph.D. students only)
• Outside the Department
  Graduate students sometimes supplement the courses offered by the department with classes offered by other departments in the university, such as Economics, Sociology, and Psychology. In addition, students in comparative politics may want to enroll in appropriate language classes for their region of interest.

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